Sheltering: Hilary Leichter on Working Remotely (and Other Synonyms for Death)

In today’s episode, Maris Kreizman speaks with debut author Hilary Leichter about her recent novel, Temporary, the story of one woman’s struggle for steadiness and happiness under late capitalism, a subject more relevant than ever.

From the episode:

“The book is about a woman who works as a temp but in a world that’s not like ours and a job that’s not like ours. So her job involves temping for pirates and assassins and working on a blimp. The world of the book finds all of this excruciatingly normal. It’s a magnified version of our own kind of capitalism. When I wrote it I was just thinking of all the jobs I’ve had and trying to put them on the page emotionally. I thought I could find a playful way to talk about the fear that goes into being in an uncertain new workplace, or the morality of certain kinds of jobs.”